“We got no food, we got no jobs… our PETS’ HEADS ARE FALLING OFF!”
Nothing’s more fun than The Wildey’s Tuesday Night Film Series. Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in DUMB AND DUMBER will be on the big screenwhen it plays at The Wildey Theater in Edwardsville, IL (252 N Main St, Edwardsville, IL 62025) at 7:00pm Tuesday January 18th. Tickets are only $3 Tickets available starting at 3pm day of movie at Wildey Theatre ticket office. Cash or check only. (cash, credit cards accepted for concessions) Lobby opens at 6pm.
Harry and Lloyd are two good friends who happen to be really stupid. The duo set out on a cross country trip from Providence to Aspen, Colorado to return a briefcase full of money to its rightful owner, a beautiful woman named Mary Swanson. After a trip of one mishap after another, the duo eventually make it to Aspen. But the two soon realize that Mary and her briefcase are the least of their problems.
“You were right. I’m a rebel. I am! I just channeled my rebellion into the mainstream.”
SOMETHING WILD screens Friday, June 23rd at Webster University’s Moore Auditorium (470 East Lockwood). This is the fifth film in their ‘Tribute to Jonathan Demme’ The movie starts at 8:00pm.
Director Jonathan Demme’s SOMETHING WILD (1986) more than lives up to its title. This rolicking, road trip melodrama about coincidences and happenstances features a slippery-fingered bohemian babe, a staid businessman, and a psychotic criminal on the lam. Charlie Driggs (Jeff Daniels) neglects to pay his bill one day, and a complete stranger, Lulu (Melanie Griffith) confronts him about it outside of the restaurant. Afterward, Lulu takes the hopelessly conventional Charlie on a wild ride that concludes with her handcuffing him to a bed in a sleazy motel and tearing off his clothes. Impulse prompts them to careen off with Charlie still wearing the cuffs. Eventually, they collide with Lulu’s ex, a sadistic, uninhibited parolee, Ray Sinclair (Ray Liotta) who epitomizes recklessness.
The first half of the action depicts the lunacy of Charlie and Lulu right down to an impromptu meeting with Lulu’s mother, while the second half waxes conventional with Ray and his criminal exploits. Liotta steals the show with an electrifying performance as an unhinged, gun-toting, ex-convict on parole. He is a force to be reckoned with and shows no qualms of giving into his violent urges. Ray makes a hypnotic villain and the confrontation between Charlie and he at the former’s suburban residence will have you screaming for Ray’s death (or maybe Charlies). The thing about SOMETHING WILD is its unpredictable passion. You don’t have any idea where it is going, even when it turns formulaic during its second half. Having Melanie Griffith running around naked the whole movie doesn’t hurt, but even on that note there’s a weird realistic edge to all the sexuality in the film. It’s unbelievably sexy without being dirty, cliché’, or overdone. So revisit this little gem when it screens Friday night at Webster University.
Admission is:
$6 for the general public
$5 for seniors, Webster alumni and students from other schools
$4 for Webster University staff and faculty
Free for Webster students with proper I.D.
Here’s the rest of the line-up for the other films that will be part of the ‘Tribute to Jonathan Demme’: 6/24 – Married to the Mob (1988) 6/30 – The Silence of the Lambs (1991) 7/1 – Philadelphia (1993)
The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before.
After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known in order to find a peaceful solution for their embroiled city. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
The movie is directed by Robert Schwentke (The Divergent Series: Insurgent, The Time Traveler’s Wife) and based on the novel Allegiant by Veronica Roth. Music is composed by Joseph Trapanese (Straight Outta Compton, Insurgent).
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT opens March 18, 2016.
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a) “Allegiant”, “Divergent”, and “Insurgent”
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PG-13 For intense violence and action, thematic elements, and some partial nudity.
Lionsgate has released a brand new trailer for the upcoming THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT.
The next chapter features a huge cast including Shailene Woodley, Theo James, Jeff Daniels, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, Daniel Dae Kim, Bill Skarsgård, Rebecca Pidgeon, Xander Berkeley, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jonny Weston, Nadia Hilker, Andy Bean and Naomi Watts.
The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris [Shailene Woodley] and Four [Theo James] into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before.
After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
Directed by Robert Schwentke, with a screenplay by Noah Oppenheim and Adam Cooper & Bill Collage and Stephen Chbosky, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT is based on the novel “Allegiant” by Veronica Roth.
Today fans came together on social media using the hashtag #WeAreAllegiant for the chance to be the first to reveal two new posters from the upcoming film, THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT. After generating over 58K hashtag mentions since 9am PST, one lucky fan (@dauntlessrebel) exclusively revealed the all-new pair of posters featuring Tris [Shailene Woodley] and Four [Theo James] via her Twitter account.
The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris and Four into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before.
After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths. Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT is slated for a domestic release in IMAX on March 18, 2016.
Lionsgate has released three new posters and a trailer for director Robert Schwentke’s THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT.
DIVERGENT is the most successful franchise launched since THE HUNGER GAMES with the first two DIVERGENT films grossing nearly $600 million at the global box office.
THE DIVERGENT SERIES: ALLEGIANT is slated for a domestic release in IMAX on March 18, 2016.
The third installment of the blockbuster Divergent series franchise, ALLEGIANT takes Tris (Shailene Woodley) and Four (Theo James) into a new world, far more dangerous than ever before.
After the earth-shattering revelations of INSURGENT, Tris must escape with Four and go beyond the wall enclosing Chicago. For the first time ever, they will leave the only city and family they have ever known. Once outside, old discoveries are quickly rendered meaningless with the revelation of shocking new truths.
Tris and Four must quickly decide who they can trust as a ruthless battle ignites beyond the walls of Chicago which threatens all of humanity. In order to survive, Tris will be forced to make impossible choices about courage, allegiance, sacrifice and love.
The film also features Jeff Daniels, Octavia Spencer, Ray Stevenson, Zoë Kravitz, Miles Teller, Ansel Elgort, Maggie Q, Mekhi Phifer, Daniel Dae Kim, Rebecca Pidgeon, Xander Berkeley, Keiynan Lonsdale, Jonny Weston, Bill Skarsgård, Nadia Hilker, Andy Bean and Naomi Watts.
With Danny Boyle’s STEVE JOBS, there will now be three films on the late founder of Apple Computers, the man who put portable computers in eveyone’s hand, as this film notes at one point. A few years back, there was the biopic JOBS starring Ashton Kutcher, who has a striking resemblance to Jobs and this year, an excellent documentary by the Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney, called “Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine.” Steve Jobs is a man whose fans admire him with almost cult-like adoration (and just to be clear, this writer is not among them), yet none of these films have presented him in a very flattering light- least of all Boyle’s film.
Director Boyle’s STEVE JOBS is not a biography, and Aaron Sorkin’s script does not even focus on Job’s two most significant contributions to the world, making computers personal and then putting computer-based devices like the iPod and iPhone in everyone’s pocket. Instead, STEVE JOBS focuses is on his treatment of people, particularly his young daughter Lisa, during a kind of low point in Jobs’ career. Unlike THE SOCIAL NETWORK, Boyle’s film seems to assume that viewers already know a great deal about Jobs and his contributions to the world. If you are interested in getting a fuller picture of who Steve Jobs was, as a public figure, tech game-changer or as a person, Gibney’s documentary is a better choice.
STEVE JOBS covers the years from Apple’s famous 1984 Superbowl ad, which won awards but left viewers unsure what was being advertised, through his firing as the head of the company he founded, his faltering launch of a new company Next, and then his return to Apple and the launch of the iMac. The film ends before the introduction of Apple’s most iconic innovations – the iPod, the iPhone, the iPad. The film covers the least productive part of Job’s career but that it is not the film’s point anyway. The major focus of the film is Job’s treatment – mistreatment, really – of people around him, particularly his daughter Lisa, whose parentage he denied despite a court-ordered blood test, in the years from when she was five until age 19. The film also deals with Job’s treatment of all the people working for him around him generally, particularly Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, the real programming genius behind the company, and whose products Jobs, a marketing and image-making genius, promoted and seemed to take credit for. Jobs’ magical, brilliant marketing captured the public imagination, and made them both wealthy, but Jobs also gave the impression he was the tech genius behind them as well when he was not.
Michael Fassbender plays Jobs, with a bristling energy that radiates off the screen. The film begins at the production launch of the Mac computer, one of three product launches in the film. As Jobs prepares for the debut, the team is frantic because the computer is not actually ready and is balking at doing the one thing Jobs deems critical to his presentation – saying “hello” on cue. Backstage, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend Chrisann Brennan (Katherine Waterston) is there with their five-year-old daughter Lisa (Makenzie Moss), asking for the financial support that the court ordered following a paternity test and also informing him they are now on welfare. Jobs berates her and screams like a madman when she refers to Lisa as his daughter. His treatment of Chrisann is appalling but his treatment of the little girl is worse. When Lisa asks the man she is not allowed to call father if the precursor of the Mac, named Lisa, was named for her, Jobs coldly denies it. Jobs’ nastiness is not just limited to his ex-girlfriend but extends to his confrontation with his longtime friend and co-founder of their company, Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen) who very modestly asks Jobs to publicly acknowledge the tech team that worked on the Apple II, the computer that had been paying the company bills for years. Jobs stubbornly refuses.
This rest of the film follows this pattern, with the egotistical Jobs ripping through various people around him. As one character points out, being a genius and being a human being are not mutually exclusive, although maybe not if you are Steve Jobs. The acting in this film is outstanding, with a cadre of battered people surrounding this massive ego. Fassbender’s performance is electric and likely to gain hims an Oscar nomination. Kate Winslet plays long-suffering Joanna Hoffman, Jobs’ assistant who has the thankless (literally) job of following him around and trying to keep him on track. Michael Stuhlbarg plays programmer Andy Hertzfeld, whom Jobs threatens in the minutes before the product launch. Lisa is played by different actresses at ages 5, 9 and 19, Moss (age 5), Ripley Sobo (age 9) and Perla Haney-Jardine (age 19), and all do well. Curiously, the only person that Jobs treats with any respect is John Sculley (Jeff Daniels), the CEO who took over Apple after Jobs, although Sculley comes in for some tongue-lashing too.
However, as a piece of cinema, the film is brilliantly made, with striking photography and impressive performances. Shots are beautifully framed and one sequence, where we move back and forth in time in recapping the events between Sculley and Jobs is inspired. Seth Rogen as Wozniak is amazing and delivers one particular speech directed at Jobs that should garner him an Oscar nod on its own. All the acting is strong, and is a major strength of the film. The structure of the film is masterful but throughout, the one question that most likely will pop into one’s head is why – why anyone would tolerate being around this monster. For an answer to that, audience’s can look to Alex Gibney’s insightful documentary – you won’t find the answer in this film.
STEVE JOBS is no SOCIAL NETWORK, despite its polished production and wonderful performances, and does not offer the same kind of insights on this culturally significant person and his work.
Opening on Friday is the new STEVE JOBS movie starring Michael Fassbender.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career – beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998 – STEVE JOBS takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
Watch this new ‘Look Inside Steve Jobs’ featurette where the cast and filmmakers discuss the man behind the movie.
The drama is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder.
The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson.
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award®-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
“Steve Jobs is a dazzling artistic interpretation of one of the modern techno-giants and a terrific piece of filmmaking, led by a never-better Michael Fassbender in the lead role. It’s The Social Network 2.0 and one of the year’s best films.” – IGN
Universal Pictures has released a new clip, plus new featurette, for director Danny Boyle’s highly anticipated STEVE JOBS.
Set backstage in the minutes before three iconic product launches spanning Jobs’ career—beginning with the Macintosh in 1984, and ending with the unveiling of the iMac in 1998—Steve Jobs takes us behind the scenes of the digital revolution to paint an intimate portrait of the brilliant man at its epicenter.
STEVE JOBS is directed by Academy Award winner Danny Boyle and written by Academy Award winner Aaron Sorkin, working from Walter Isaacson’s best-selling biography of the Apple founder. The producers are Mark Gordon, Guymon Casady of Film 360, Scott Rudin, Boyle, and Academy Award winner Christian Colson. (Trailer)
Michael Fassbender plays Steve Jobs, the pioneering founder of Apple, with Academy Award-winning actress Kate Winslet starring as Joanna Hoffman, former marketing chief of Macintosh. Steve Wozniak, who co-founded Apple, is played by Seth Rogen, and Jeff Daniels stars as former Apple CEO John Sculley.
The film also stars Katherine Waterston as Chrisann Brennan, Jobs’ ex-girlfriend, and Michael Stuhlbarg as Andy Hertzfeld, one of the original members of the Apple Macintosh development team.
The film’s score, a retro soundtrack of synthesized sounds of the period, is from composer Daniel Pemberton (THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E.)
STEVE JOBS opens in select theaters Friday, everywhere October 23.
Columbia Records is releasing “Songs From The Martian” and “The Original Motion Picture Score” by composer Harry Gregson-Williams to the critically acclaimed and much anticipated movie THE MARTIAN, available digitally today at iTunes here: Songs Album and Score.
A deluxe edition of the album, “The Martian Deluxe Soundtrack” (Songs Album and Score) is exclusively available at Amazon here.
THE MARTIAN also opens nationwide today and features a star-studded cast, including Matt Damon in the lead role as Astronaut Mark Watney. (Review)
The ’70s-laden album is comprised of some of the greatest classics from disco’s golden era (tracklist below) including “Turn The Beat Around” (Vickie Sue Robinson), “Hot Stuff” (Donna Summer), “Rock The Boat” (Hues Corporation), “Waterloo” (ABBA), and “I Will Survive”(Gloria Gaynor), and others.
The music evinces the plight of the film’s protagonist, Astronaut Mark Watney, played by Matt Damon (the Bourne film series), who during a manned mission to Mars set in the not-too-distant future is presumed dead after a fierce storm and left behind by his crew. But Watney has survived and finds himself stranded and alone on the hostile planet with only meager supplies – and limited distractions – including a playlist of ’70’s disco music left behind by Commander Lewis played by Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty, Interstellar).
Watney must rally his optimistic spirit, drawing upon his ingenuity and wit to subsist and find a way to signal to Earth that he is alive. NASA and a team of international scientists race against the clock to bring “The Martian” home, while his crewmates concurrently plot a daring, if not impossible rescue mission.
Based on a best-selling novel, and helmed by master director Ridley Scott, THE MARTIAN features a star studded cast that includes Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kristen Wiig, Kate Mara, Michael Pena, Jeff Daniels,Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Donald Glover, among others.
THE MARTIAN’s original motion picture score is composed by Harry Gregson-Williams (The Shrek Franchise, Man On Fire, The Chronicles Of Narnia). Gregson-Williams also previously scored director Ridley Scott’s 2005 movie Kingdom Of Heaven.
SONGS FROM THE MARTIAN
Turn The Beat Around – Vickie Sue Robinson
Hot Stuff – Donna Summer
Rock The Boat- Hues Corporation
Don’t Leave Me This Way – Thelma Houston
Starman – David Bowie
Waterloo – ABBA
Love Train – The O’Jays
I Will Survive – Gloria Gaynor
The Martian Score Suite – Harry Gregson-Williams
THE MARTIAN: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SCORE, MUSIC BY HARRY GREGSON-WILLIAMS
